"Thou dost complain, that thou hast wrought for "Thy sweat hath also irrigated soil, în arluq 10 i As honest industry upon the ground! avisant la squad seg J` "With these suggestions, of the woes of Wealthy M Unless they're light'ned by Benevolence:" Yet, men will risk a journey to that clime, "Although Jehovah to the point hath spoken, Thou art, like man, distrustful of the token: And, as tho' thine were only human sense, swer No test will answer but experience; = Nor yet will that, unless it is thine own- Thus would those human egotists declare,ni olir W Whose folly is a proverb, everywhere, mains/supina (Unless, mayhap, the lunar folks should besig-lasıq Inclined to approbate their lunacy,):) - Bouioilua me: To whom, I've constant preached, six thousand years, And vainly, as though asses had no ears!s na id bark Lladral so evol so mag ads or bxa 1 "Among this race, improvement is all fudge;ceast As trudged the father, so the son doth trudgesnisbət And when exception offers to the rule, aqsed T Its subject is admonished as a fool! „misnor dɔ: 'w rupiy I out nequ sargits fauisezoną a "I'll now leave thee, to thy contemplation Ab Of my proposals for reformation! my 943 041 34 197 Heed my precepts remember Agur's prayer: Thou shalt be free, as spirits of the air!"'y-st While indulging a recent exacerbation of literary antiquarianism, among the curiosities of my greatgreat-grand-father's Scrap-Book; I casually fell upon the subjoined burlesque of the fashionable monoma. nia, of Louis 14th of France; And for which, as indicated by an autographic mariginal-note, we are indebted to the pen of Pere de Lachaise, the worthy Confessor of that royal friend, and zealous patron, of the delirious ostentation, and senseless etiquette, with which Europe was bedizened, for near a century; and which remains, at least, with the reflecting moralist, a proverbial stigma upon the Parisian, to the present day; And however inapplicable to the good people of Vermont, in the year of our Lord 1889; it may, 'notwithstanding, claim, of the curious, to be preserved as a literary relic of the seventeenth century. The following may be received, as, very nearly, a literal translation of the Scrap-Book copy, which is humbly submitted to those who will condescend to read it, ANTIQUARIAN,' Reason, that sour misanthrope, yet persists, 951 #1 In her senseless contest, for dominion,to,ext thi O'er those unfeathered geese, or tailless apes, t Denominated, by themselves, mankind; As though her monastic melancholy, . That maddens at the thought of earthly bliss, it.. ́1 · And calls man's pleasure all concupiscence That would feed his enterprise, with shadows, »» ! Among the children of the Temperate! missile "Her vanity is inexhaustible; Or she would have, long since, deemed it hopeless, At least, with those, who bow at Mainmon's shrine, Among my countless, biped worshippers→→ Thanks, to the premature development O'er Reason, as the Monitor of Man, and # Whose unrestrained indulgence constitutes, eae N "Dame Nature could never have intended njeg ́Ï Man, to be the Proselyte of Reason; For else, his Appetites would have been wroughter. T Freeze up the current of fictitious enterprise,T That claims, exclusively, his vigilance!! Humanity consists of sympathies, Udasi That they commence, and terminate,.: Is that two-legged thing, she calls her Pet! te v ľ "Man's proverbial Magnanimity,ng sihat adtruT Like the Philanthropy, he practices, lupaa secus U Forms a Halo, but dimly luminous, 3) side oss draW Beyond the circle of his private views.virons bri Within, it shines, with treble brilliancy, nosЯ:3 |